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Broadcom GNSS Geolocation Driver installed and working in Asus ME400C Win 8 device sensor list. MS Streets 2013 installed and says "No GPS receiver is detected."
I have read that the Asus ME400C Win 8 doesn't use com ports and am told many of these Win 8 tablet generally can only provide GPS data to one program at a time.

MS Streets is advertised as compatible with this Asus ME400C Win 8 tablet. So How do I see if "GPS Satellite for Windows 8" is running running and how
do I disable it? Also any other help with getting this to work is appreciated. -Dave

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Streets 2013 can only talk to GPS devices via a COM port. Neither of these two tablets have a low level driver that exposes the GNSS chip as a COM port so Streets does not even know it is there. Most other mapping software does the same. Unfortunately
that means the chip is really pretty much useless so i just left it turned off on my Latitude 10

I finally found a way to get my Dell Latitude 10 (Broadcomm GNSS chip ,Windows 8 Pro) to work using an app called Centrafuse Localizer that creates a virtual com port and writes the NMEA data to it so Streets and Trips can connect to it ( must run
as Administrator).

The latest Broadcomm drivers from Dell
did not work. I was getting sensor data but not NMEA data , which seems to be a common issue. In the Localizer Support forum on his site he has an Installation How To thread that talks about how to verify you are getting NMEA data.

In order to fix that, I ended up installing Lovono Broadcomm drivers (do so at your own risk) referenced and linked on the site, and now Streets and Trips works connected to the virtual com port. Depending on your chipset you may not even need to replace
your drivers.

I was able to solve that problem by writing a quick VB program to access the new Windows API and dump the data to a com port. To complete the magic I found free null modem software that I connected to my VB programs com port and Streets GSP com port...Works
great.